The article considers the process of urbanization of Polish society, the causes of political weakness of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and evolution of conditions during the 15th - 17th centuries. Special attention is paіd to the policy of Polish nobles concerning town centers. The author analyses the causes of specific role of Gdansk in terms of agriculture and political life of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
On the basis of the sources and monographic literature analyzed the military and political events of the Moldavian state in the context of the history of Northern Bukovina, Moldovan-Polish and Moldovan-Turkish relations that affected our region.
The article analyzes the publications of Russian historians of the XIX-XXI centuries, who turned to the topic of the Polish movement in Right-Bank Ukraine in the first quarter of the XIX century. The aim of the given paper is the analysis of historiographical heritage associated with the study of the problems of the Polish nobility motion in Right-Bank Ukraine. This analysis makes it possible to trace the study of problems by Russian historians and identify the main approaches and concepts.
The author shows the main occupations of the urban population of Сhernigіv province in the second part of the 19th century. The priorities of the individual national groups of urban residents are traced. The author shows the relationship between the level of economic development of the cities of Chernihiv province and the main occupations of their people.
In the article is made an analysis of the scientific work of F. Rusanov as a source of documental research; clarified its significance for the development of the science of the document. The study focuses on the first attempt to unify the process of creation and organization of work with documents; it develops the early theories of documentation as the fundamental framework for management documents. It is generalized the rules of workflow, analyzed the species composition of the documents of the institutions, defined the common in their structure and the organization of work with them. Individual cases of practice working with documents is brought up to a certain theoretical level - scientific documental analysis, which is a valuable scientific basis for theoretical documental research and identifying further ways of development of documentation processes today.
The article deals with securing the cultural needs and the promotion of culture of ethnic minorities in Ukraine in the process of ethnic identification, harmonization of interethnic relations on the basis of archival, statistical data, analytical inputs of predecessors. A significant part of the article is devoted to educational activities of the libraries to promote the cultures. Also is shown the cooperation of libraries in promoting with the authorities, educational, cultural - educational institutions.
This article deals with the stages of economic development of the region from traditional crafts to factory type companies and modern production association. It analyzes the history of origination and formation of the chemical industry in the process of development of salt production, potassium salts discovery, the foundation on this basis the first joint-stock companies in the times of the Austrian Empire and the "Carpathians’ chemical industry giant" of the twentieth century - the "Hlorvinil".
In the article is made an analysis of legislative regulation of the higher historical education in the Russian Empire during the first half of the 19th century. Defined the structure and procedure of functioning of university education, including historical education; outlined the features of the individual schools' functioning, which was associated with the ethnic, national and religious specificity of the regions, in which these universities were located.
In this paper are described the conceptual documents, which defined the basis of functioning of university education in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. It was established that the design of the system of humanities education in general and historical in particular in universities turned out to be a lengthy process that continued throughout the nineteenth century.
The article investigates the material base conditions of Labour Reserves educational institutions during the economic recovery of the Ukrainian SSR after World War II. The author made an attempt to analyze the level of different premises and technical equipment provision of factory training and vocational schools. The sources and ways to replenish the respective constituents of material base have been clarified.
Most of the prewar Labour Reserves buildings were strongly affected by the hostilities and the deliberate destruction. The institutions got dilapidated buildings in destroyed cities. It resulted in a significant delay of the full training process start. Given the critical status of the overall economy, the government tried to save on Labour Reserves system and carry out reconstruction with minimal investment.
The main immediate cause of recovery and repair delay in most schools was a shortage of building materials. All urgent repairs were carried out by students and teachers of factory training and vocational schools and partly by basic enterprises employees.
The huge problem was overcrowding as large buildings were very few. The classroom fund was extremely lacking. There were too little places in hostels.
At the beginning of the restoration of the Labour Reserves network almost all prewar technical equipment of educational institutions were removed during the evacuation, destroyed or plundered by invaders or by looters. Most of the base units of technical equipment were transferred to educational institutions by basic enterprises after cessation of hostilities. Industrial managers were doing it as a volunteer, and also under pressure from government and party organs. But usually training workshops received obsolete and worn out equipment with limited suitability that needs repair or full restoration.
Much attention was given to the independent manufacturing of various technological tools and accessories and own machinery products. Expansion of own production and turning it into a massive faced with a number of insurmountable obstacles that nullify all optimistic plans.
The article deals with the life and career of the famous Ukrainian historian, political and public figure, diplomat Vyacheslav Kazimirovich Lypynsky (1882-1931), reveals his contribution to the understanding of the events of the national liberation movement in the 1920-ies. The author analyzes the historical and political concepts of V. Lypynsky concerning state-building in Ukraine.
The article deals with the activities of Olena Apanovich in the study and preservation of ukrainian cossacks' memorials on the territory of the former Zaporizka Sich in late 1980 - early 1990. Researcher's organizational efforts and her participation in expeditions organized by the magazine "Sights of Ukraine" "Zaporizka Sich: destroyed and survived" in 1989 and 1990 are analyzed. The complex nature of expeditions and the significant public comment on the expedition are pointed. Olena Apanovich became a scientific supervisor of the expedition. Cossacks' memorials in several regions of Ukraine: in the places of siches, palankas, zymivnykys and Khortytsia island were investigated. O. Apanovich and the members of the expedition attracted public's attention to the serious condition of monuments of Motronynskyi monastery, memorials of Kholodnyi Yar, Nikopol museum, I. Sirko's grave and to the places of the most important of cossacks' battles. The expedition in 1990 began with the investigation of memorials of Nehvoroshchi Poltava region and recorded a significant number of unsatisfying condition of museum monuments. Overall the activities of Olena Apanovich in the study and preservation of ukrainian cossacks' memorials put this issue as one of the main Ukrainian national revival in late 1980 - early 1990.
The article is devoted to the development of saltpetre production in Novgorod-Siversky. Both known facts and materials of recent archaeological research are used in the study. A brief analysis of historiography and history of archaeological research concerning saltpetre production in Ukraine is given. The latter includes the description of saltpetre production in Bilske settlement. A special attention is paid to the recently discovered saltpetre oven in Novgorod-Siversky, as well as possible locations of saltpetre production in the town. The saltpetre production complex inside the town's posad near Zaruchavye is described.